My pottery teacher keeps saying I need to slow down and feel the clay but I have been making the same wobbly bowls for two years and everyone else is moving ahead.
More people experience this than they realize.
The tension between patient mastery and impatient achievement creates a crisis of faith in the traditional apprenticeship model.
“Where Are You with Craft traditions across cultures — the shokunin?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.